The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-05-28
Vicinity Notes.

The Aurora city council made the yearly
appointments last week. Many heads rest
easier.
Mr.. G. p. Trask, of Aurora, was thrown
out of his wagon by a runaway team last
week, and sustained Injuries from which
he died the same day.
The Aurora papers speak in highest
terms of the presiding mayor Of Aurora,
Mr. Meredith.
A fairy May party was given at Aurora
the other day fancy dance for little peo-
pie.
The Canton Board of Education contem.
plate building n scnool house On the school
lot in the west part of the township-the
new building will be brick and larger than
the present dilapidated old frame, probably
% or 2ix3O feet-FUlt0H Co. Ledger.
Lewistown is hankering for boom. II
wants water works, gas light, electric light
and peanut stand on the corner
RIgdon Huston, the noted Short Horn
cattle breeder, died at the Hillsdale stock
farm, miles south of Raritan, ILL.,, Satur
day night, May Z, 1887, after painful Ill
ness of several months duration.
StreAtor is pushing Fourth of July Gel
ebratiou. We think Streator has consider
able of celebration all the time.
A little girl named Alig, whose parents
live west of Me,amora jumped match
with her play fellows over the skipping
rope. She jumped about | Is times, Next
day she was taken sick ana In two days
was dead,-Erchmge
Jumping the rope is very violent eXer.
else, and there Is always great danger from
INDUCING in it to excess.
S,reator has band concerts every little
while, and the people support 1t. That
isn't bad idea Lets have one here.
The Sreator school board has asked the
common council not to give licences to
saloons to be located within block of any
school building.
Mendoza has joined the rest of the neigh
borhood In the water works que stion
Mendoza Is rather under the impression
THAT Sne WuIlS Wdtcl Noiho'
Mendoza will celebrate Temperance
Day" June LIST, on which occasion papers,
essays AMI discussions will be the order of
exercises
A missionary convention was held at Jol-
let last Monday, at which many prominent
missionary workers of the state were pres
ent.
Joliet pleads for some new furniture In
the office of the chief clerk ut the prison
She wants tho furniture to be as good look
ing as the men In the office.
Not strawberry or Ieddish to be found
on the market. Pie-plaut and asparagus
seem to be the right thing for the Mar
seilleslan.-RegiSter.
We always knew there was sort of Il
fresh, natural verdency about Marsellles,
but we never knew why before.
Two boys in Aliens Grove township,
Mason county, found den of eight cub
wolves last Sunday. The find netted them
$i0-Erchdnge.
Miss Jessie White, of Joliet, Is receiving
anonymous letters, of the most
and insulting character. Most
of the papers sympathize with her but one
suggests that possibly, like Cadet Whitta
ker, she is her own prosecutor. If We
were prosecuted that way we'd drop the
letters into the stove and say nothing about
il. How do all the letters get into the pa
pers In fully Who gives them to the press
for publications
On Wednesday noon, Mr.. Martin Han
sell, sun in law of Taos. McGinnis, living
8 miles northwest of Mendoza was kicked
by horse in the abdomen, injuring him
so severely that he died in few hours. He
was about 40 years old, and leaves wife
ana two children --WeHdOta Bulletin.
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